COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT PORTAL
Malmö University's Master's programme, founded in 2000
Communication for Development student Vanessa Vertiz was interviewed for the Malmö University’s web (in English) after the fine evaluation of the ComDev programme.
We are of course thankful for the great students that help us to have reached the good results so far.
Greetings, the ComDev Staff. ‘
Link to article with interview:
http://www.mah.se/english/News/News-2012/Communication-for-Development-graded-highest-in-national-evaluation-of-higher-education/
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On May 8, from 15:00-17:00 we will be using this portal to broadcast a guest lecture from Mark Mullen titled “The US and Europe in Georgia: The Differences in How They Do Development.”
– And what that means for you as you try to get a job.
Mark Mullen is currently working in Georgia, and has long experience from working in different countries: East Africa working on drought relief, followed by democracy related work for the National Democratic Institute (NDI, www.ndi.org), two years in Palestine, a year in Albania then in 1997 as the head of NDI in Georgia until the Rose Revolution. Mark started the national chapter of Transparency International in Georgia (www.transparency.ge) and is involved in a number of non-profit and for profit and social enterprise in Georgia.
There are many interesting connections between Comdev and Caucasus Studies and something that we plan to explore more through these types of events in the future.
If you would like to join the lecture in person you are welcome on May 8, 15-17,
Citadellsvägen 7 (room 104).
To learn more about the Caucasus Studies at Malmö University please see the program website.
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As most ComDev students are well aware, the master programme has during the last year undergone thorough evaluation by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (HSV), along with all other educations in the area of Media and Communication at both bachelor and master levels. The focus on this evaluation was the correspondence between learning goals and learning outcomes in the examinations in general and the final Degree Work in particular. Ylva Ekström was assigned to write our so-called self-evaluation and put a lot of effort into this important quality work – and today we received the reward. ComDev is the only programme of twenty-six in the area of Media and Communication in Sweden that has received the highest mark.
We are immensely proud and happy to make this announcement to all current and prospective ComDev students at Malmö University. After twelve years of pioneering development we stand stronger than ever, with increasing numbers of applicants to the programme, and we are eager to continue and expand our work, in collaboration with our regional and international partners, to establish a centre of excellence in Communication for Social Change and Development at Malmö University.
Oscar Hemer (programme coordinator) and the ComDev staff
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Issue 16
editor's column by Oscar Hemer
When trying to assess our contemporary predicament, the once controversial G-word may be about to be replaced by another elusive concept: Mediatization. The second or third phase of the digital revolution, with its explosion of so-called social media, has made it adamantly clear to us how all sectors of culture and society are saturated with, and increasingly influenced by, mediated communication. Not only politics and the public sphere, but our private lives and everyday experiences are today inseparably entangled with the media.
This is not a “new” phenomenon. It can be traced back all the way to Aristotle’s Poetics, or at least to Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and catchy but obscure conception of the medium as the message… But whereas mediatization used to be largely confined to the global North, or the so-called developed world, and hence not a concern for the traditional field of Communication for Development, it is now truly a global phenomenon, as demonstrated by the ongoing so-called Arabic Spring.
Today’s media environments, in which “old” and “new” media converge in ever changing forms, are both radically transforming the arenas of public opinion and agency – redefining the very concept of a public sphere – and yielding new forms of expression that transgress former genre and media boundaries.
READ MORE at www.mah.se/glocaltimes
